How low-tech Theresa May nearly became a hipster with her Blackberry

Keep using something long enough and you will be cool againGETTY IMAGES

When Barack Obama revealed that he’d upgraded his presidential Blackberry to a smartphone, the world was aghast that he’d fallen so far behind the times. Blackberries were old hat by then. They were anachronistic. They were the things that Naomi Campbell flung at her assistants during the dying days of Cool Britannia. Barack Obama upgraded his Blackberry in 2016.

Theresa May, on the other hand, upgraded from Blackberry to iPhone only last week. This either makes her dangerously uncool or basically the coolest badass who ever walked the Earth. Nobody knows which, but it’s definitely one of them.

Theresa May upgraded from Blackberry only last weekRUPERT HARTLEY/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK

When it comes to modern methods of communication, it’s impossible to know what’s fashionable and what isn’t. Trust me on this. For example, on Twitter a couple…

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